rondom ctd

[rotwein]

hi,
my game crashes all the time (2-15 minutes). i have tried the one core solution but nothing changed. clean install wasnt succsesful too.
i never had those problems before. one thing that is different now is my grafic card. i had to use an older card. could that be the problem ?
what else could it be? win 7 ? i only played the seleuciden. and another thing that is different is that i use a gamersgate version.

its so sad. i love this mod. i played it several years and now its unplayable.

[d'Arthez]

Sounds like it might be the older graphics card. They can be a real pain in the <bleep>. Have you tried using another graphics card? Updating graphic card drivers?

But just to get a clearer idea of the problems you experience, a battery of questions:

When do the crashes occur? When initiating battles, or randomly during your turn, AI turns? Or when selecting units? Do the same issues occur when you play another faction, say Sweboz?

There might have gone something wrong with your install, or one of the files is installed on a series of bad sectors on your harddrive, which can result in the most frustrating problems. Have you run a harddisk maintenance check?

[rotwein]

i will test the other things but the crashes occur during my turns without any reason.
by the way ii´m using the mega mod pack. i will try it without it.
i have the newest graphic card drivers. so that shouldnt be the problem.
i installed the game in a normal sector where i install all my games. win is on drive c and eb is on drive d:games/europa barabrorum

update: ok i have started a game with casse and it crashed during turn 3. so the faction is not the problem.

[d'Arthez]

Mega mod pack is notorious for its bugs. EB should be a lot more stable without it. You may want to try running it without it.

[XSamatan]

Included in the package is a bugged mini-mod about watchtowers. Fix that or get rid of it and you should be fine (or at least eliminate this possible reason)

XSamatan

[rotwein]

thanks for the help.
i reinstalled everthing and changed some things and now its more stable. only the battles are instable. i dont know if that has something to do with multicore. is there a program so that i dont have decactivate it manually and yeah i wait until the end of the victory fanfare at the end of the battle but nevertheless every third or forth battle is a ctd.

ps: when do i have to use the auto win cheat. i just had a battle where my troops killed 3400 enemies and lost 800 and surprise surprise ctd. so how is the win cheat because i dont want to play a battle two or three times.